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Source Description
There are only a handful of paintings known today that are considered to be by the Paduan master Francesco Squarcione: two signed paintings in the museums of Padua and Berlin and two very similar images of the Madonna and Child, including this one in the Walters and a similar one in slightly better condition in a private collection. Squarcione is best known today for his collection of antiquities and the large workshop he operated in the 1440s and 1450s. In the 1440s, his pupils or assistants ranged from the Andrea Mantegna, who went on to be one of the most important painters of the 1400s, to the little known Dario da Pordenone, to whom the Walters' monumental paintings depicting the Adduction of Helen (37.1178-1180) are now attributed.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
344
label
Madonna and Child
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obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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344
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Madonna and Child
description
There are only a handful of paintings known today that are considered to be by the Paduan master Francesco Squarcione: two signed paintings in the museums of Padua and Berlin and two very similar images of the Madonna and Child, including this one in the Walters and a similar one in slightly better condition in a private collection. Squarcione is best known today for his collection of antiquities and the large workshop he operated in the 1440s and 1450s. In the 1440s, his pupils or assistants ranged from the Andrea Mantegna, who went on to be one of the most important painters of the 1400s, to the little known Dario da Pordenone, to whom the Walters' monumental paintings depicting the Adduction of Helen (37.1178-1180) are now attributed.
provenance
Constantini, Florence [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Bernard Berenson [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1430-1450 (Renaissance)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
paintings
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1
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1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
54.5
height
41
dimensionsRaw
Painted surface H: 21 7/16 x W: 16 1/8 in. (54.5 x 41 cm); Panel H: 24 x W: 16 5/16 x D: 1 in. (61 x 41.5 x 2.5 cm)
Source extras
med
tempera and gold leaf on wood panel
creator_ids
17206
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REN
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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